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Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics
zogger writes in his journal, "The guy who put together the concept of geographical location combined with cheap transportation leading to 'like trades with like' and the rise of superindustrial trading blocs has won the Nobel economics science prize. He's a bigtime critic of a lot of this administration's policies, and is unabashedly an FDR-economy styled fella. Here is his blog at the NYTimes." Reader yoyoq adds that Krugman's career choice was inspired by reading Asimov's Foundation series at a young age.
It appears as if that ship has sailed. Krugman did some incredibly important work when it comes to trade, but his opinions over the last decade have certainly had a hint of douchebaggery. I haven't really followed him (I'm afraid I'm not really into hero worship when it comes to economics), but it certainly seems as if this choice was largely political.
Economics, a fine scholarly field, is not a science, as much as some economists would like to pretend with their crude algebra and stats.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
assclown? English has tens of thousands of potential insults-- and you come up with "assclown"?
No, discussion is not better here than most other places. Sure, there are often a few informed people around, but far from always. Most science debates show that the average slashdotter doesn't have the slightest idea about what science is, for example. Most technology discussions show that there are loads of fanboys with mod points, and loads of people with nothing to say who know these fanboys have mod points, and go out to say whatever gives them their +5.
I come here mostly to flame.
barack Obama isn't half black. He's just full of shit.
Well, no surprise from the committee that gave Mr. Peanut the nobel peace prize.